"Yutate Shinji" was held at a shrine in Ise City, Mie Prefecture, where the body is splashed with hot water boiled in a large pot and wishes for good health.
The Yudate Shinji ritual, which has been passed down since ancient times at Sakaeno Shrine in Futami-cho, Ise City, is said to purify the mind and body by bathing in boiling water to overcome the heat.
On the 14th, in the rain, a tent was put up in the precincts of the shrine, a cauldron was placed under it, and hot water was boiled with firewood.
Then, the Shinto priest soaked a bundle of kumazasa about 35 centimeters in length in hot water and splashed hot water on the worshipers, and the Miko also held the kumazasa in both hands and performed a dance while splashing.
It is said that the power of the gods resides in Kumazasa, so the worshipers who surrounded the cauldron bowed their heads to receive the spray and prayed for a year of good health.
An 80-year-old local woman said, ``This year, I got hot water on my head.
The kumazasa used in the Shinto ritual is distributed to the worshipers and enshrined in the altar of the house or at the entrance of the house.